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New York Times:
A Pitched Debate: Clinton Hears It From Her Rivals — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York came under withering attack from the rest of the Democratic presidential field last night in a pitched two-hour debate that her opponents used to challenge her candor and electability and to portray …
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Washington Post:
Clinton's Foes Go on the Attack — Front-Runner Is Target in Season's Liveliest Democratic Debate — With just over two months until the first primary contest, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic rivals aggressively challenged their party's front-runner here Tuesday night …
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Obama, Edwards attack; Clinton bombs debate — PHILADELPHIA - - We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton has a bad night, she really has a bad night. — In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Clinton gets no love in Democrats debate — PHILADELPHIA - In the City of Brotherly Love, there wasn't much for a sister. — Hillary Rodham Clinton's rivals ganged up on her during a two-hour Democratic presidential debate Tuesday night, putting the front-runner on defense on issues ranging …
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Adam Nagourney / The Caucus:Debate Preview: All Eyes on Obama
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Katharine Q. Seelye / The Caucus:Live-Blogging the Democratic Debate
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The Fix:
UFOs and Alien Life — In the weird last minutes of the debate (the period, by the way, when The Fix made it onto the basketball court in high school) Rep. Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) gave us a highlight. — Asked about the statement by actress Shirley MacLaine that Kucinich had seen a UFO at her house, Kucinich said that he had.
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Rob Kauder / KXLY-TV:
Cross-dressing state lawmaker blackmailed following late night tryst — SPOKANE — State Representative Richard Curtis says he's not gay, but police reports and court records indicate the Republican lawmaker from southwestern Washington dressed up in women's lingerie and met a Medical Lake man …
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Stays Execution in a Sign of a Broader Halt — Moments before a Mississippi prisoner was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court granted him a stay of execution and thus gave a nearly indisputable indication that a majority intends to block …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Mukasey Losing Democrats' Backing — Nominee Unsure If Waterboarding Breaks Torture Law — Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey told Senate Democrats yesterday that a kind of simulated drowning known as waterboarding is "repugnant to me," but he said he does not know whether …
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Associated Press:
Tax law: Are you eating those pumpkins? — DES MOINES, Iowa - The Iowa Department of Revenue is taxing jack-o'-lanterns this Halloween. The new department policy was implemented after officials decided that pumpkins are used primarily for Halloween decorations, not food, and should be taxed …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Live Debate Blogging — Diplomacy, diplomacy and also diplomacy. Did I mention diplomacy? — 9:25 PM ... Hillary "I will do everything I can" to prevent from Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Good answer. — 9:26 PM ... Obama: We cannot act as if we are the weakest nation in the world when we are the strongest.
FIRE:
University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation — The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university's own materials as a "treatment" for students' incorrect attitudes and beliefs.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
NGRs = Not Gay Republicans — Unsolicited advice from TPM to closeted Republican politicians: if you offer to pay a guy $1000 to have sex with you, don't try to wriggle out of paying the thousand dollars. — More advice: if you get into a payment dispute with the guy you paid to have sex with you …
Opinion Journal:
Surveillance Sanity — Companies that help protect the U.S. against attack deserve immunity from frivolous lawsuits. — Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush authorized the National Security Agency to target al Qaeda communications into and out of the country.
Guardian:
Post-Islamism — The future of Islamic reform lies with post-Islamism - a recognition that politics rather than religion provides for welfare in this life. — There is universal consensus that Muslim dictatorships, supported by the west, are the root of evil.
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
U.S. and Pakistan: A Frayed Alliance — As Military Efforts Falter, Trust Suffers — Five years ago, elite Pakistani troops stationed near the border with Afghanistan began receiving hundreds of pairs of U.S.-made night-vision goggles that would enable them to see and fight al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents in the dark.